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VVOL. II, NO. 9.LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO, JANUARY 10, 1080.Snhucrlptlon S Per Tur.Hingle Coplee 10 CU.WESTERN LIBERAL.THE LOST AET8.WOEFUL LEGISLATORS.New Mexico.PUBLISHED FRIDAYS.S..i '.-v , jí'rie-",,Three Mentis 1 üüBix Months 1 iOne Year 8 00Subscription Always Payable In Advnnoo.Guuthem PaciCo Üiuilro'.P. KNorth bdBTATIUSS.Smith bdKj p ni Lv .... ..lirrtsluirg.....Ar H-.M a m'10:! H lil::) n niI 11:04 a m....I.v! í:liu mXitfj p mi....:-)9 p mi....:P n....E -30 p cvAr.Summit.. .. ...Piintmn.. .Outhrle.......Clll'tou-...P. B. GREAYES,NOTARY PUBUC.CoDeUos made fur 11 tho States und Tui-rt-t-H'iOM.Uwdsburg ... New MexicoA. N. SIMPSON, M. 1).l'hysleluul aud Surcuunl.Ofllco In P.Djf'.ti Drug Store, corner of FirJtnnd Shakespeare strict, where 1 bey culi befound at nil business hours, uuloss uru,csiionI iljr cugagod.f. dsbtirgNew MexicoM. J. EGAN,A V IORSKY AT LA W.OiHoo lu the Arlwnn Copper Company's Uuildlug, West Sino of Itivur.Clifton. - Arizona.ASEENFELTER & BONABOE.ATTORNEYS - AT - LAWJ -:-.! in yNew MexicoJOS. BOONE,A.TORXKY ami COUNSELLOR.VI. I practice In all the courts and laud of-tf.-e.-l.'ii tiio territory.frr,mt attention given to all business ontrusl.d to hiiu.Doming - -' NewMexleoW. P. TOSSELL.J 23 -W Ij 12 ISA Complots Stock of.TATCHE3, CLOCKS amo JEWELHY.AH Work Warrautod.Doming ... New MexicoANK PROCTORBLACHSTillTHAND WAGON'MAKER.HORSE SHOEING ANDGENERAL BLACKSMITHING.Is.- tit-burgNew MexicoCorral & Feed. StattlB(Wostof Olussoii ltrothei)The best attention given to transient andc-oiu'dlug uuiuiuls.Tro importing of freight aud goods of anyklud done suU&ruutorily.Mull and Stage line leaves the oorral everyTnwdav, Thursday and Buiurday uioruiug utJ.ju tor Gold il lil.U. Y. MlXillA i ll, ritUiI.ordslmrgBurled Secrets of the Feat and Helences ofthe Ancient.From tho Peoria Journal.Notwithstanding the great advances ininvention ami manufactures of the presentrenliH-y in pint re.pecta, there are man;wnndoi tul ii rt unt f.'ifnin in which thef.iii'.ieiil hav in vr I rtpinled ti nr the-tf-t of which , us. onrf Mine enhed.in tho !( !t.-r ( the Catholic pel- iU whoS -st visited China, which were. Gr.t published in France 200 years ago, they relatethat they were shown a plain, transparentand colorless, which was filled with a liquid made bv the Chinese, which to theobservers appeared to bu as clear as water.This liquor was poured into the glass;then, looking through it, it seemed to befill: d wirli fishes."I nil was not owing to nny peculiarity offluid. but to Hie l'Ihfj ilsclf. The Chi! -o; !"v-t 1 rh'.t ll,ny did not make' ' ' i' 'a'. '!.: were t!ie phnder of, , - in.iuy i;'''nluri:5 be-i- ' .1 L-t':r'j im iheí.íjH. Arts," in sjirakin of roallenble(lusa tells of a Roman, who, in Ihe Bf ofTiberius, had been banished, and returnedlo Rome, brinún; u womlerful cup. Thicup he dabbed upon the marble pnvenioutand it w.i crushei but not broken, by thefull. Although somewhat dented with ahammer he er.sily bent it into shape aain.It was brilli :nt uud tra!is;mretit but notbrittle.He further staled that the Romans obtained their chemistry liom thfl Arabians,and that, they brought it into Spain eightcenturies nyo. hi the books of that agethere i , a kind of niass spoken of that ;tsupported by one end, by its own we'ght,in a ciay't timo would dwindle down to uline line, so that it could bo curved i.roundone's wrist like a bracelet.The art of luminous puintinpwi,! knownto the Japanese 000 y Mr asro, and an extract from one of their old writers hatbeen translated as follows:"One Su N.i'ii u.jny ;.eais n'O had apit tur of an ox. Kvery day the ox leftthe piclur? fi .uní) lo t'i'az-i and returned todeep within it at r.ilit. This picturecame into the posses: ion of tho EmperorTai Tsung of tho Sunj dynasty (A. I),970 90S) who showed it lo tj i-s conviersand a-.k''d them for an explanation w hichnone of tbem, however, could irive."At last a certain Bud Ihist priest saidlh.it the .f it'll n t i; f' -vid some nacreous.'batane:; within the (ie.h of a certain kindof oysl'.T they pi: ked up v.hni (lis rockwere L:iril at lo-.v tide, and that Ihey(."'Hind this into K.l "I niiteri.il aud thenpainl'ii pictures with it w hich weu invisible by day but luminous by nifchl."The ::crot aiuip!) v;a? that during thelay ti.e flb"."ie of llio ox was not visibleand it was tiierelVru said that it 'ell theI'ruu.e It' go graz'np.In tin? yer.r 1078 the t :v -niicth of Q icenElizabeth's rei-ii, one Mark Scallot, ablackmilh, made a lock consisting of eleven pieces of iron, steel and brass, with uhollow key to it, that alíoether weanedbut one irrain of o!d. 11 j al-o mada auold chain composed of forty-three liuks,which he fattened to tho luck and key. Inthe presence of the quet u he put the chainabout ihe in; It of a flea, wloch drew itwilh ease; alter which he put Ihe lock andkey, Ilea and chain into a pair of scales,and they allogether weighed but one graiuand ii half.Myi'ipjcides, nn undent carver, was soprofic'eiit in microscopic mechanism thathe made an ivory chariot with lour wheelsand us many harnessed horses in so smalla compass that a tiy mighl hare hiddenthem all behind one of its wings.The same artisan uude a (hip with allher decks, masts, yards ncium and sails.which took up scarcely more room than thechariot.Tho Damascus blades, as marvels of perfect steel, have lo' ;t been famous and eventhoje used in the cuantíes are as perlectto-day as they were eight centuries ago.Gnu on exhibition in London could be putinto a scabbard utmost as crooked as acorkscrew and bent cvety way withoutbreaking. The point of thu sword couldbe made to touch the hilt.Tho World Ought to Know It.The world ouhtto know what S. S. S.has donu for me. in the cure of a malignantCancer, which was so bad a to be cotibidcred incurable by tho phyriciaut in Chicago, where 1 went to bo treated. Thehospital surgeons avt) me up, si: y icy theycould do nothing for me. One of myueinhbors sent me a copy of on advertisement cut from a paper tu regard lo Swift'sSpecific, and 1 began taking it. I j;ot relief from the first few doses; the poisenwas gradually forced out of my system,aud I was soon cured sound and well. Itis now ten months since 1 quit taking: S. S.S. and I have bad no sign of return of thedreadful dieuse. There are thousands ofpvoplo go io to their graves every yearwilh Cancer and they ouht to know ofthe virtues of S. S. S.Mhs. Ann Botiiwkll.Au Sable. Mich., Dec. 29, '83.The uullior 01 Hie celebrated Murchisonuttu la b .Ll it,lu n.,l. irt II. u i.,iuI George Osgood of Tomona, California.From the Optlo.Will Ryan, of Lincoln county, returnedyesterday morning from Santa Fe, wherehe has been watching legislative proceedings for some days past. At he left fromthe trrin it was noticeble that his usualsmile had given away to an ashes andcharcoal expigssion.miied with demc.'raticchagrin. Being put to the torture, he confessed that the investigating committeeswere working nobly, but they were liableto get into a hornets nest before lorg. Mr.Ryan's indignation was extreme in explainnig the injustice of the committees."Why," said he, "there's Jimmy Dolan,from our county, he's going around SantaFe with a face at long at the crape on abrass door knob. They say that he got2G3 totes by promising to adopt as manypoor Mexican children, and now he is trying to devise soma meant to avoid bis contracts. Why, the man's actually gettingI liia thinking what his family will say lohim about his 2G3 adopted kids, when heKoes home."There's Frank Lsnet, who was electedby Indians. You know Johnny Rii.;y aniMajor Llewellyn speak the Apache language with the greatest fluency, nnd it isnow openly asserted that together íícvworked the Indian reservation for Lesnet.Riley went over uud told tho terra collacolored swipes at manhood that their oldagent's Indian name was Llewellyn butthat in English it was William HenryI! unison anil the real grandson of 1) r,j imin. Then he gave tln:iu too sehool boyversion of Tippecanoe, Yieenne? and theBlack Hawk wars and the fact that themajor had onco been the great white chiefat Washington himself, and he made thedusky devils b'elievi it nil. The questionthen rose as to how to vote 'em nnd justhere the pseudo grandfather displayed hisfine Italian hand and the votos were ca:.lby proxy nil over Doña Ana county."Now 1 don't say this is true, but suchgrave charges should ut least be refuted."I'm not the loiist bit surprised at Rdeybeing at Santa, Fe, for unless this legislature reliare him he is a ruined man.Were il not for the kindly feeling I bayofor his friends and family 1 should cliaracterizo his conduct as infamous. He wentover into the LaLuz and T.ihrosa count ryJuring the cau);iign, and he met half adozen poor devils who were tired of themonotony of the so-called bachi loi ic freedom, and damned if he didn't promiseeach of them a wife for his vote and he;;ot 't in too; now he is up at Sinta Fe trying lo secure the passage of a bill lo relieve him of a contract which in horor he-honl.i pel form and be couip'.llod to comply wilh."They say that in the event of Tom Catron's nppoiiilment us governor, Mr. liossill in turn be appointed warden of thepenitentiary, but of that I am not certain.Mr. Catron is more in love with himselfand Ihe world than he ever was belore inbis lift ; be weais a (umuiur smile on thecoldest day anil he says he never knewwhat happiness was until he began to keephotel you know he is running the Capitol with Biliy Jiurtou's chop houso for anannex."But it is really shameful, the mnuiKTin which they are conducting things overthere, Eight or ten members called uponme the other evening at my room and 1judged from their manner that they didn'tthink I onghtto be there -just because, Twas a democrat, I suppose. I saw onemember of the vigilance conin.ittée stoopdown near my door, and when 1 went npto him he had a slick of wjod in his hand.He was a good friend of mine, but theparty lath had been appliel an 1 bo wasthero lo mob me."And the Lincoln man escaped,Itrother iu Itlark.Two or three years ago a negro boy onmy place near Franklin, Kentucky, w.istormented with an apparently incur iblucase of scrofula, which lasted him a longlimeandgavehimgre.it trouble. Aftertrying a great many other remedies, 1 atlength went to Dr. Morris' diur st ire iuIbis place and boughl several bottl-.'S cf S.S. 3., by taking which, and noibing ti e,he was fully and perniuneiitly cine l. Heis now a stout man, and at the time t began giving him H. 8. S. the bones wereworking out of bis arm could use b;.t nearm and the doctors said nothing ronlddo him any good; but I had tried S. 8. '.and Keen it tried, and felt it would cctehi in.Jtinx II. fin.UNOKK.Franklin, Kentucky, December 13, 18'.S.Democrat: About 400 miners are nowemployed in the Gallup coal fields, and theforce is to be increased as soon as facilitiesfor more rapid mining operations can neprovided. At present the mines are working to their fullest capd 'ty. The grea'.erportion of the eoal unearthed is shipped toCalifornia, and it is utterly impossible tokeep up with orders.The world-wide reputation of Ayer'sHair VifOi, is due to its healihy action onthe lair and scalp. This incomparablepreparation restores the original color togray and laded hair, and imparls the glossand freshness to much desired by allclassei of people.HEWS NUGGETS.Various Items of tiews Gathered from OarKxnlmnge and other Hourees.Rev. W. R. Kisller of Las Vegat diedlast week Thursday. Mr. Kistler was wellknown as one of the pioneer Methodistministers of tho territory and hat donenint h good work in the cause of his Master.He loaves a wife aud two sons, W. D.Kistler, member of the legislature, andR. A. Kibtlur, editor and proprietor of theOptic. ITho solid ci! i.nns of ll'Tmosi have entered inso an agreement to prosecute anyand all persons carrying deadly weaponsor using obscene language on the streets.Albuquerque Citizen: Nearly all theboys in town can swear in two languages,and yet there are people who have the audacity to say that New Mexico is not capable of self government.Miss Alice Desbrow of El Faso, whilenut riding near Las Cruces, lost her way onthe greut mesa and was out all night,alone and nearly frozen. Toward morning she tied her horse and laid down onthe ground, where she slept till late nextmorning, wLen she was rescued by partiessei.t in search nf her.Ciisller: The saloon men of Cerrillosliaye g ine ;.:to an arrangement lo closetil ;ir business houses Sundays, and t i haveno back or side door attachments, and theiii' l 'j.ie of them to vholato any part of theüi;.v.;:iient forfeits S"jJ.A Socorro Chinaman, who has shownsij,u; of insanity ever since losing a fewhundred dvllars in a bad speculation recently, became violent on the streets theother due, and seir.itig a stick ran after aMexican woman in a threatening miuiuer.lie was taken into custody ami placed injail for safe keeping1,San Marcial R ;-irtor: Italian cunningw.u well cx.'tupiilied by ono ot that nationality in the employ of the railroadcompany at this placo but the resultswere somewhat disastrous. The Italian ismarried to a Mexican woman nnd n cousinof his wilo who is slopping with Li tn wastaken tick, and wishing to get rid of himhe applied lor a rcquisil ion for medicalServices lor hiniotlf. He then presentedhim-'-lf lo th,3 co.ii,i'iy' aurjon andwanted lo bo s'-nt to tho hospital, intending, undoubtedly fo get a pass in his ownnam" and ship bis cousin to the ho-pital tobo cirod for at the company's expense.The doctor fixed him up snie medicine,but refuse.! io give him il Intqma! permit.The next day l,e .-liowed up awtin and reno wed Ins vqn "t. In Un; iibMtiliuw thedoctor had caudal o:i lo the Italian's racket, and !ie fi.w! up a dose trial niatid thingslively and mw tiio conrln has a woc-bo-!;culaT-vt a? if L bad tested the vanityot ail cui'liily iiiaus. The I taima lockiat Ihe i'ot tor ceit of the corners af hisyre, but doc- u-ji aÁ oí any molo- medical services.An amwini; Me of aff'iirs has come olight at the U. i'c N. railroad odico in- thiscity, says the 0vi n-djoio, Kentucky Enquirer, and will ciiHii no litile work tostraighten out. Kvently a lanner shipped Lis cll'ecls over the road, airion thema ctnv. When the ear reached Iitissellv'i'i!..' a cow and a calf weto in '.he tar, instead of only a cow. Tli? ttijent at Russcllvillo reported tho calf to the train dispatcher as property over and wanted instruction. The train dispatcher reportedit to the conductor and he to the agenthere, the agent to Freight SolicitorILig'ies, and the matter is uo.v in thehands of the gener-il freight agent for adjudication, 'll.o mailer will doubtlesscome lo Ihe baods of Colonel Beavor, attorney for the road, who will have to decido whether or r.ot a calf bom in transitbelongs to the owner of the cow or to therailroad transferrin;; it. In the meantimethe cow and the calf are together in possession of Ihe owner of the iW.New Mexican: At a larking of the artesian well directors on Saturday night ituai fe.pnd that the company had ou handiilit iil ltfo.000 worth of machinery; owediíl.OüO and luid 3.70 in Ihe treasury.Ihe board directed I'residei.t C. F. A.Fi-char to adveiiise Ihu property for salemid pay till' the company's debit. Thusanother enterprise winds up its careerand no attempt has yet been i :ado to tapthe artesian bain which nearly everybody admits probably exists under tbof .-'ah til Fc Valley.lo-t'.r.I was the victim of the worst catarrhthat I ever heard of. I was entirely deafin ore ear, and all the incide of the nose,including part of tin' bone, tlouglied otf.No treatment benefitted me, anil physicians said ! would never lie any better. 1look S. S. 8. as a last n-sji t, and it has enlin ly cured me. 1 have been well foulyears, nnd no sign of return of the dreadful disease.J'l'.s. .lii-KonixE Pni.iuia,Dee Weei, South Carolina.Swift's Specific is entirely a vegetableuieoit ine, and is the on'y medicine whichhas ever cured blood piou. scrofula, bloodhumors and kindred diseares. Send foroar books ou blood and skin diseases,muded free.Tn e Swift Si-kcific Co.Drawer 3, Atlanta, Georgia,-FOZEüDHCstrt IBrotlxers,WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BUTCHERSHaving the best fucllltlos In the Southwest wo are prepared y furnish custouiors withFreshIn tiny uuantliicsaud at reasonable prices.Market on First street, opposltoLORDSBURQO- IR. 3 m y th.,Freighter and Dealer in HeaVy HardwareSTEEL, PICKS AND MINERS' SUPPLIES,POWDER, CAPS AND FUSE,HAY AND GRAIN AND BLACKSMITH'S COAL.X.ord.G'bu.rg' - - 3Te-w Mezico..7. CHRTPTIE.Sec'y aud Troas.C. C. FITZOKRALD,Prest, and Gea. MenagInternationalEl Paeo,I'AIO II' CAl'ITAI.BUYERS OF SILVER, LEAD AND COPPER ORES. WILL MAKE ASSAYS,TESTS AND REPORTS IN ALL CLASSESOF MINERALS.OFFICE-El Paso Teias, Not. 3 and 4 Dronson Dioek. WORKS -Cotton Avenue, ElPaso, Texas.IOriginal LitlloThis company Issues tho samo inumbcrcdtickets as thc'Louislnnu Blate Lottery Compuny ut Now Orleans, and pays prizes ou thesauiu numbers us the Louisaua.Prizes paid through Wells, Fargo'-t Co. or atthe homo office, Han Frauolsoo.Tickets for sale at tho Kagle Drug Store.Tr3r cu TIclrot for XjVLcIt-Eagle Drus Store,Dealer In8TATIONEHY,TOILET audFANCY ARTICLES.TOIIACCOK8,CIO A Its andBMOKEU8' AUTICI.ES.PLATING CARDS. -IW TUB EAGLE AlSALEMeatsSouthern Pacific, depot, south sido.. - NEW MEXICOO. E. FITUOHBALD,Bupcrlntcudont.Tescac600,000aLouisiana Company.FKIO Or TICKETS.Whole ticket HO.oonbJHalf tickets it centsMonthly 'drawings.Capitol I'rlse, 7,VOO.Tickets for tale at tho Libkhal oflloo..v;.4!,' .JrX astCompanyr